Armageddon: Total War

[DensterNY]

I was discussing with a few other members about a nice build-up in Khazar to meet the Mongols in 1230 so I spammed out tons of men to encourage the Golden Horder to bulk up:



Cool... unfortunately the Mongols had a strong although measely response to my 40,000+ men awaiting them:



This was the following screen but it became such a hassle trying to arrange reinforcements that I exited and took out any non-elite troop except for longbows though so I ended up fighting them with almost equal numbers about 14k to 13k troops.



At the end of the day here are the results after nearly 9 hours of fighting:



The Khan stopped dead cold in Khazar... almost 80% of the credit goes to Arbalesters and Billmen (who should be simply called: Gruesome horse killers)

[Mithrandir]

Lol! Nice one...

but if the battle took you 9 hours, what was your timer set on?

[dgfred]

Very nice D . I wonder why they didn't have more? What if you
had been able to build stuff there before they arrived, what do you think
would have been different?

Cool stuff!

[DensterNY]

Well Mithrandir surprisingly I had the timer on but even with over 9 hours of fighting only half of the clock had elapsed which is good I guess since there were 30k men on the field.

As for Khazar there wasn't an armorer or horsebreeder's guild by the time they arrived so I guess with those they might have had slightly better troops. However, I had a 6 star general with skilled defender bonus behind my men and the Khan only had 3 stars which really showed in the battlefield. Plus, he fled the field in the first wave which didn't help their cause either.

My 3 or 4 valour Arbalesters were taking out 9 Mongol Heavy Cavalry a volley and their archers couldn't compete with the arb's range either...

Also, 3 or 4 valour Billmen the second that they touched these same cavalry troops you could see these horsemen were Losing Badly and they'd rout in 10-20 seconds.

All in all a fun Sunday morning and afternoon.

[Mithrandir]

And no cav in your army I see? Didn't huge amounts of mongols rally and charge and charge again ?

I never liked these kind of battles since once you've won the first wave, you've usually won the battle, no matter how outmanned you are...

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

How do you guys get these battles, I play on hard and I'm lucky if the enemy deploy 1500 men on huge unit size.

Or is that my problem, the unit size?